
George Sanders
- Date of Birth: 1906-07-03
- Date of Death: 1972-04-25
- Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy ... George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent (1940, a rare heroic part), The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949), the most popular film of the year, Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950, for which he won an Oscar), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of Batman (1966), the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967), the suave crimefighter The Falcon during the 1940s (a role eventually bequeathed to his elder brother, Tom Conway), and Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.

Ivanhoe
Adventure, Romance, History • 1952 July

Quiet Please, Murder
Crime, Drama, Thriller • 1943 March

The Ed Sullivan Show
Comedy, Talk • 1948 June

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Documentary • 1996 April

Appointment in Berlin
Drama, War • 1943 July

Cone of Silence
Drama, Thriller • 1960 May

Never Say Goodbye
Drama, Romance • 1956 March

Things to Come
Drama, Science Fiction • 1936 March

A Date with the Falcon
Crime, Mystery • 1942 January

Samson and Delilah
Adventure, Romance, Drama • 1949 December